Malvagna Triptych: Exterior wings: Adam and Eve

Exterior wings: Adam and Eve ; Exterior wings: Adam and Eve, Malvagna family coat of arms, Interior: Virgin and Child with Musical Angels and Sts. Catherine and Dorothy. The Malvagna Triptych, among Gossaert's most prized works, is his only surviving intact triptych. The patron may have been Antonio Siciliano, whose name suggests that he came from Sicily, where the altarpiece was known by about 1600. Siciliano could have acquired this work as well as The Doria Pamphilj Diptych when he came to the Low Countries on a diplomatic mission from Milan in 1513. Gossaert invented the composition, with... Mehr ...